Thursday, September 30, 2021
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Monday, September 27, 2021
Sunday, September 26, 2021
Saturday, September 25, 2021
Friday, September 24, 2021
Thursday, September 23, 2021
"Traditionis Custodes: Vatican II at the Throes of Death"
So the Mass is once again outlawed, as it was under Paul VI. The letter that accompanies Traditionis custodes explains unambiguously the ultimate goal of the pontifical text: to ensure "a return to a unitary form of celebration": the new liturgy.
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Monday, September 20, 2021
Sunday, September 19, 2021
Saturday, September 18, 2021
At Least 3,000 Native Americans Died on the Trail of Tears
During his two terms in the White House, from 1829 to 1837, Andrew Jackson was responsible for putting Indian removal policies in place; however, he left office before the 1838 deadline for the Cherokees to surrender their lands in the East. It was Jackson’s presidential successor, Martin Van Buren, who ordered General Winfield Scott to forcibly evict the Cherokees.
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During his two terms in the White House, from 1829 to 1837, Andrew Jackson was responsible for putting Indian removal policies in place; however, he left office before the 1838 deadline for the Cherokees to surrender their lands in the East. It was Jackson’s presidential successor, Martin Van Buren, who ordered General Winfield Scott to forcibly evict the Cherokees.
https://www.history.com/news/7-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-trail-of-tears
Friday, September 17, 2021
Save Fetal Tissue Research
Fetal tissue is a precious medical resource.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/12/opinion/save-fetal-tissue-research-and-save-lives.html
Nazi persecution of the Catholic Church in Poland
It is less understood that due to their ethnic identity that approximately, 1. 9 million Polish Catholic citizens were murdered during the Holocaust and that 1.7 million Polish non-Jews were imprisoned in concentration camps in Siberia, 2.0 million were deported as forced laborers for the German Reich and 100,000 were killed in Auschwitz.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_persecution_of_the_Catholic_Church_in_Poland
World's 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%, says Oxfam
In the 10 years since the financial crisis, the number of billionaires has nearly doubled.
Thursday, September 16, 2021
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Brown v. Board of Education
The Topeka junior high schools had been integrated since 1941. Topeka High School was integrated from its inception in 1871 and its sports teams from 1949 onwards.[66] The Kansas law permitting segregated schools allowed them only "below the high school level".[67] Soon after the district court decision, election outcomes and the political climate in Topeka changed. The Board of Education of Topeka began to end segregation in the Topeka elementary schools in August 1953, integrating two attendance districts. All the Topeka elementary schools were changed to neighborhood attendance centers in January 1956, although existing students were allowed to continue attending their prior assigned schools at their option.[68][69][70] Plaintiff Zelma Henderson, in a 2004 interview, recalled that no demonstrations or tumult accompanied desegregation in Topeka's schools...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education
The Brown ruling directly affected legally segregated schools in twenty-one states. In 1954, seventeen states had laws requiring segregated schools (Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware), and four other states had laws permitting rather than requiring segregated schools (Kansas, Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming). Kansas's state statutes restricted segregated elementary schools only to cities, such as Topeka, that had populations of more than fifteen thousand.
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2004/spring/brown-v-board-1.html
Monday, September 13, 2021
Sunday, September 12, 2021
When an officer says "Put your hands up," then put your hands up! Don't reach for something in your pocket, your lap, your seat.
"It's not the police who need to be retrained, it's the public. We have grown into a mouthy, cell phone wielding, vulgar, uncivil society with no personal responsibility and the attitude of 'it's the other person's fault', 'you owe me'. A society where children grow up with no boundaries or knowledge or concern for civil society and personal responsibility.
Saturday, September 11, 2021
Friday, September 10, 2021
One-year-old baby girl found dead in Texas after mother left her in a hot car for nearly 10 hours after dropping off her other two kids at daycare, cops say
The father has not been cooperative, according to police. The names of the parents and the daycare have not been released
Biden's Vaccine Fiat Forges a Fascist Pharma Corporate State
Benito Mussolini said himself that “Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”
https://mises.org/power-market/bidens-vaccine-fiat-forges-fascist-pharma-corporate-state
Thursday, September 9, 2021
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Why did the Vikings stop raiding?
When I talk to general audience on Viking topics, some frequently asked questions are: What happened to the Vikings? Where are they now? Did they die off? Were they conquered?
Before discussing what happened to them, it's helpful to know who they were. A simplistic definition calls the Vikings those people who lived in Scandinavia and the North Atlantic settlements in the Viking age, with the Viking age arbitrarily defined as the years between 793 and 1066. It was during this time that these Northern people had the largest impact on other Europeans, through trade, and through their Viking raids.
http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/society/text/what_happened.htm
By the mid-11th century, Christianity was well established in Denmark and most of Norway. Although there was a temporary conversion in Sweden in the early 11th century, it wasn't until the mid-12th century that Christianity became established there.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/vikings/religion_01.shtml
The pagan Great Midwinter Sacrifice and the ‘royal’ mounds at Old Uppsala Göran Henriksson*
Some Christians had visited Uppsala and told Adam about the horrible Great Sacrifice, and he wrote that from every living creature, nine male individuals were sacrificed to conciliate the gods. The bodies were hanged up in a sacred grove close to the temple. This grove was considered to be so sacred by the heathens that every tree was believed to have a divine force derived from the death and decay of the victims. For a period of nine days, one man and seven male domestic animals were sacrificed. When the sacrifice was completed, one could see altogether 72 bodies hanging in the holy tree. Birds and rats ate the bodies when they disintegrated (Tschan 1959: 208 [Adam 4.27]). The excavator Bror Emil Hildebrand found some non-cremated human bones and bones from seven different domestic animals: horses, oxen or cows, pigs, rams, dogs, cats, and cocks in the filling material of the eastern mound. This may indicate that the holy tree was situated in the vicinity of the eastern mound (Lindqvist 1936: 206).
Clovis culture
Available genetic data show that the Clovis people are the direct ancestors of roughly 80% of all living Native American populations in North and South America, with the remainder descended from ancestors who entered in later waves of migration.
